Check it Out: Lullaby for Heartsick Spacer
There are quiet, peaceful games. Games like Knytt Stories (the first one, not the game that made it’s way to Playstation) that seem like they just want to curl up and take a nap. Peaceful worlds that you simply get lost in. Knytt Stories had an objective, of course, a town to save. But you could simply wander through […]
Review: Jazu
Review: Mountain
I did not pay for Mountain. The now well known “Mountain Simulator,” seemed to have all of the components for a game I would not enjoy. As a general rule, I have an aversion to things that are intended to be ironic, or for games that seek for pretension above experience, and as far as I […]
Check it Out: Shot Aground
There are plenty of interesting and attractive games coming out of the Space Cowboy Jam, and Shot Aground is a prime-example of both of those things. Shot Aground doesn’t innovate a lot on the central concept, that of a single gun man running along a landscape killing your enemies. Controls are complicated on a keyboard, especially a […]
Review: Little Tree Spirit
Little Tree Spirit is a gentle game, a eternal climber that quietly asks for your attention. Everything about the game, from its sountrack to the soft colors in which it is animated is a reminder of the occasional gentle spirit of nature. To say that there is not a lot going on with Little Tree Spirit belies […]
Check it Out: Facist!
Have you ever wondered what your face of your future children would look like if they were drawn by Edmund McMillen? Good news, you can now find out. Facist is a short little game wherein you type names into the game and it pops out a unique looking character. It’s all in the Edmund McMillen style […]
Review: composition 83
There’s a fine line between calm and eerie, and it’s one that composition 83 toes. Like an astronaut or a deep sea diver, you explore an empty monochromatic world, objects slowly coming into focus through a haze of grey. There isn’t a lot of explanation in composition 83. Instead, it plays on the best kind of horror; […]
Review: Be Reasonable, Diane
WAIT You might get lost in that mysterious state And maybe I won’t really know what to say Cause maybe I don’t wanna stand at the gate Video games as music videos have been tried in the past with a mixed bag of results. A perfect example of this is Cactus’s Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf, a […]
Review: Bouncing Dude
Bouncing Dude is just a man trying to survive in a world filled with monsters. But he won’t let that stop him from doing what it is that he apparently always does — bounce. To call it bouncing would perhaps be inaccurate. After all, he continues to reach the same height no matter what else […]
Review: The Woods
Venture deep inside the woods, on a journey of your own. The Woods is a quiet game that does not beg for your interaction. Birds chirp in the distance. There is the soft sound of chimes blowing in the wind. A tombstone. A broken heart. A rabbit. The Woods possesses a near painful level of zen. A determined […]
Lounge Lord by Flex
This will be on my Tumblr! What kind of underground DJ will you be? Lounge Lord puts you in the DJ’s booth at an exclusive hipster dance club. You have a wide array of tools at your disposal to create the kind of music that makes people dance. Or not. You could just up the tempo […]
Review: Why Not?
At a pivotal moment in Why Not? I was attempting to fly into the sky. The narrator tried his hardest to stop me, told me repeatedly that it would not allow me to fly, and then when it finally relented, the scene became touching. Vaguely sad. It appeared that the narrator simply didn’t want to […]